Dizziness

Question 1

Severity

Answer 1

1) How bad
2) Is it affecting your lifestyle?
3) Does it affect your movement
4) Spinning sensation?
5) LOC

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

1) Diet and fluid intake
2) Ill recently?
3) Happened before?

Question 3

Aggravating features

Answer 3

1) Getting up suddenly

2) Movement

Question 4

Associated features

Answer 4

1) Headaches
2) Shakes
3) Hearing loss/ vision disturbances
4) Vertigo
5) Feeling sweaty
6) Looking pale
7) Vomiting
8) Photophobia/ neck stiffness

Question 5

Associated features for back pain

Answer 5

• Numbness/ tingling in legs?
• Pain in legs?
• Weight loss
• Affecting sleep?
• Redness/ swelling/ reduced ROM

Question 6

Key things I forget from back pain

Answer 6

• Is it present at rest?

- is it WORSE at night?

Question 7

Headache: assocaited features

Answer 7

1) Muscle tension/ stiffness
2) Watery eyes/ stuffy nose
3) vision problems
4) Feeling sweaty?

Question 8

Associated features of knee pain

Answer 8

• Swelling/ redness
• Stiffness
• Reduced ROM
• Knees clicking?
• knees locking up on you

Question 9

Time course- knee pain

Answer 9

Worse at a particular time of the day?

Question 10

Things I forget with dizziness

Answer 10

1) Have you been ill recently
2) Has this ever happened to you before?
3) Are you legs wobbly?

Question 11

Associated features for vomiting/ bowel motions

Answer 11

1) Fever/ infection
2) Weight loss
3) Pain- abdo pain
4) Light headedness
5) Cramps
6) Bloating
7) loss of appetite

Question 12

Context for vomiting/ bowel motions

Answer 12

1) Travel
2) Allergies
3) Illness
4) Change in diet

Question 13

Associated features with palpitations

Answer 13

1) Chest pain
2) SOB
3) Dizziness
4) Light headedness

Question 14

Oedema- quality

Answer 14

1) Can you describe the swelling
2) Do you notice things sticking into you?
3) Do you have imprints of your socks and shoes at the end of the day?

Question 15

Oedema- severity

Answer 15

How bad is the swelling

1) Do your legs ache?
2) Does the skin on your feet feel tight?

Question 16

Associated features of oedema

Answer 16

1) SOB
a) On exertion b) at rest c) at night
2) Any pain
3) Fever or infection
4) Chest pain

Question 17

Dyspnoea- severity

Answer 17

How bad is it?

1) Do you have to breathe faster to get air in?
2) Present on exertion?
3) Present at rest?
4) Present at night? Is it worse at night?
5) How far can you walk before you need a rest?

Question 18

Dyspnoea- quality

Answer 18

Describe the feeling

1) Difficulty getting air in?
2) Getting it out?
3) Both?

Question 19

Dyspnoea- associated features

Answer 19

1) Is it there at night?
2) How many pillows do you normally sleep on?

A) Wheeze
B) Cough
C) Chest pain
D) Fever/ infection
E) Swelling

Question 20

Dyspnoea- FHx

Answer 20

1) Allergies
2) Asthma
3) Hay fever

Question 21

Muscle weakness- quality

Answer 21

1) What does it feel like
2) Is movement a real effort?
3) Does it feel heavy

Question 22

Muscle weakness- associated features

Answer 22

1) Headache
2) Vision disturbances
3) mouth dropping
4) Speech disturbances
5) Palpitations
6) Difficulty breathing
7) Legs tingling
8) Fever
9) Pain

Question 23

Muscle weakness- severity

Answer 23

How bad is this?

1) Is it stopping you from doing your normal activities
2) Have you had any accidents?
3) Have your legs given way?
4) Are you having difficulty breathing